Notre Dame students already fed up with ticket sales could add another gripe to the list after long lines made the Keenan Revue ticket d is tribu tion last only 23 minutes. Although ticke t w indows did not open until 2 p.m. Friday, the firs t students to receive tickets arrived at gate 10 o f the Joyce Center as early as 10 a.m. “A good portion o f the line was formed by 1 or 1:30 p.m.,” ticke...

For cities, it is cruicial to solve their mobility issues. One of the approaches is to convince people to use more sustainable means of transportation. This research investigates the effect of social influence and financial incentives in the state of “particular matter emergency” in Stuttgart, Germany. Preliminary results show an increased awareness, a reduction of cars on the road and increase...

Globalization of markets involves new strategies and price policies from professionals that contribute to global competitiveness. Airline companies are changing tickets’ prices very often considering a variety factors based on their proprietary rules algorithms searching for the most suitable policy. Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) models exploited latter task, due compactness, fast adap...

With the wide-spread adoption of information technology and the global diffusion of GIS, a large volume of digital spatial data continues to accumulate. In the field of domestic air travel, aggregate data at a fine geographic resolution have become available. For instance, ever since the enactment of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, all large certified domestic air carriers conducting sche...

This case takes place in the increasingly competitive environment of the airline sector.Airline websites and Internet-based booking systems enable transformation of airline operations and become strategic weapons for the majority of airlines worldwide. Established airlines are attempting to stimulate customers to use the Internet, in response to entry of low cost carriers that capture shares of...

Dynamic price discrimination adjusts prices based on the option value of future sales, which varies with time and units available. This paper surveys the theoretical literature on dynamic price discrimination, and confronts the theories with new data from airline pricing behavior. Correspondence to: R. Preston McAfee, 100 Baxter Hall, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, pres...

The commercial exploitation of the emerging Grid and Cloud markets needs SLAs to sell computing run times. Job traces show that users have a limited ability to estimate the resource needs of their applications. This offers the possibility to apply overbooking to negotiation, but overbooking increases the risk of SLA violations. This work presents an overbooking approach with an integrated risk ...

We examine the value of price commitment for a nonprofit organization using individual level purchases over a series of concert performances. To decide on a pricing policy, the performing arts organization must be able to accurately measure when each ticket will be sold and what type of audience will purchase the tickets for each performance. We use a competing hazards framework to model the ti...